Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry is widely known as a musical icon of his native country Jamaica. An innovative and visionary producer, Perry contributed hugely to the expansion of the Jamaican musical art scene throughout the ‘60s and ‘70s. During that time, many …

Vom Druckknopf bis zur Weltraumsonde: So weit erstreckt sich der Horizont von Produktdesign. Weil Design viel mehr ist als „Linienführung”, geht diese Designgeschichte der Frage nach, wie sich die Ansprüche an die Gestaltung von Gebrauchsobjekten im La …

The first comprehensive collection of Nest , the magazine that revolutionized the way we look at interior space and decoration The brainchild of artist and designer Joe Holtzman, Nest magazine, published from 1997 to 2004, eschewed the conventionally b …

Duplex Architekten demonstrieren beispielhaft, wie innovativer Wohnungsbau in der Schweiz funktionieren und welchen Beitrag damit für die Stadtentwicklung geleistet werden kann.

This book aims to shine light on work of women in type. The first part of the book offers research on the gender issue in type design field. It includes statistics, data and an overview of some works that address this issue. Further it contains some bi …

It was published on the occasion of a traveling exhibition about The Palace of Typographic Masonry in Turin, Italy this spring and it contains 3 conversations I’ve had with graphic designers Linda van Deursen, Julia Born and Catherine Guiral about book …

A selection of stellar contributors to the fabulous women’s magazine The Gentlewoman present a timely selection of thought-provoking, witty essays on manners, offering the modern woman viewpoints and advice on classic conundrums and totally contemporar …

VIER5, MONOGRAPH – RETROSPECTIVE ISBN: 978-3-00-069925-2 23cm x 14cm, 160 Pages, B/W Published on the occasion of the exhibition VIER5 “WIN A NEW CAR“, at MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome. November 3, 2021 – February 6, 2022   CONTRIBUTORS: D …

Reportagen, das unabhängige Magazin für erzählte Gegenwart. Herausragende Autorinnen und Autoren berichten in spannenden Reportagen aus dieser Welt. Vor Ort recherchiert, persönlich bei den Protagonisten und abseits der ausgetretenen Pfade. Jeden zweit …

Duplex Architects, founded in 2007 in Zurich and with offices also in Düsseldorf, Hamburg, and, most recently, also in Paris, have gained an excellent reputation internationally for their designs of various scales and vast range of typologies. This fir …

You look nice. How exhilarating and terrifying to be looked at, to be seen – to realize you’ve been an image this whole time. All that patient primping, that painstaking preparation, suddenly confronted with its own potential: This is me! you say, aspi …

The Department of Speculative Facts connects two seemingly contradictory approaches: Speculation which attempts to think and act beyond existing knowledge and structures, and fact-checkers in search for a solid consensus on which our reality can be bui …

FUCK THIS LIFE (New York, USA) DREAMGIRLS Published in 2018 13 x 19 cm 24 pages Color Offset Print First Edition

Das künstlerische Spektrum der französischen Künstlerin Camille Henrot (*1978) umfasst die Bereiche Film, Malerei, Zeichnung, Skulptur und Installation. Henrots Einflüsse sind vielfältig und reichen von der Selbsthilfe über die Kulturanthropologie bis …

wo sonst Flugzeuge im Minutentakt abheben, ist nahezu jede Bewegung zum Erliegen gekommen. Der Himmel über dem Rollfeld leuchtet blau, die Kondensstreifen sind verflogen, die elend langen Gänge gespenstisch leer. Im April 2020, auf dem Höhepunkt des ersten Corona-Lockdowns, besuchte der Offenbacher Fotograf Marc Krause den Frankfurter Flughafen, um mit seiner Analogkamera die seltsame Stille dieses »Nichtortes« einzufangen. Ohne die getaktete Geschäftigkeit des Regelbetriebs fiel sein Blick auf die Dinge, die der Rausch der Bewegung für gewöhnlich verschluckt: die Geometrie der konstruktivistischen Architektur, das Spiel aus Licht und Schatten, die Überbleibsel und Hinterlassenschaften der Reisenden, die sich normalerweise zu Tausenden durch die riesigen Hallen schieben. Entstanden ist ein faszinierender Einblick in eine fast surreal anmutende Welt – ein beunruhigendes Zeitdokument und beeindruckendes Fotobuch, das den Betrachter zwischen Melancholie und sehnsüchtiger Hoffnung zurücklässt. Ergänzt wird diese von Victor Balko gestaltete Publikation durch einen Text von Florian Siebeck.

The fascination with Emma Kunz (1892 – 1963) has never been greater than it is today. Much that the researcher, healer and artist anticipated with her holistic way of thinking is now taken for granted in contemporary art. ‘My images are intended for th …

BER 2017–2020: An airport with no planes, a terminal with no passengers. Berlin-Brandenburg Airport (code: BER) was for a long time a major project that never came to an end: half-finished, devoid of function, in a perpetual state of waiting. Over a pe …

Im frühen 20. Jahrhundert war Sachsen ein Zentrum der Textil-, Leuchtenbau- und Möbelindustrie, die für die Serienfertigung und Verbreitung wichtiger Bauhausentwürfe eine wesentliche Rolle spielte. Bauhaustypografie und -bildästhetik fanden Eingang in …

Stylo-Bille features a selection of Ronan Bouroullec’s recent drawing. Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, born 1971 and 1976, respectively, in Quimper, France, studied at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Cerg …

A sumptuous 200-page hardbound volume, A Joe Brainard Show in a Book is devoted to the graphic works and artists’ publications of artist and writer Joe Brainard (1942-1994). Prefaced by Brainard’s close friend, the poet Ron Padgett, and accompanied by …

What is the connection between art and a new eco-politics? What changes lie ahead for our cultural institutions? How does Gaia make it onto the theatre stages? How can art come into being without resources being consumed? What can we learn from indigen …

‘Design in Conservative Times’ tackles conservatism in and around design, challenging both designer and user to actively engage with, and reflect upon their positions within our current, politically charged landscape. The focal point of this reflection …

Inspired by ‘Tokyo Papers’ by Karel Martens, Ari Marcopoulos arranged his pictures while thinking about what would distinguish inside and outside, public and private. It is an idea that had already become a prevalent thought during the Covid-19 pandemi …

The work of Aglaia Konrad is driven by her interest in urbanity and architecture in general, and cultural difference in particular. A comparative practice that runs equally warm for every possible experience of the local. Previous experiences, in 1994 …

What is artistic research? What is a research document? How do these relate to the making process, invention, and creativity? What exactly is expected of me? If you have ever asked yourself any of these questions, then this book is for you. Research Fo …

In October 2012, a group of 10 students from the Master Art Direction course at ECAL travelled to New York for a one week workshopat the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography. This publication is the result of interviews and photographic i …

This hands-on workbook playfully explores the tension between originality, imitation and individual taste by delving into Gerrit Rietveld’s design legacy through a selection of five do-it-yourself-copies of his iconic chair designs. Who are the people …

Equally inspired by medieval bestiaries and observations of our damaged planet, A Bestiary of the Anthropocene is a compilation of hybrid creatures of our time. Designed as a field handbook, it aims at helping us observe, navigate, and orientate into t …

American publisher and DIY architect Lloyd Kahn made a name for himself in the 1970s with publications on the self-build movement. As an eclectic meta-manual, Shelter Cookbook explores the content of these now iconic publications and relates their ways …

Text research by Eiko Grimberg, English, 22 × 27 cm, 116 pages, 85 color and black & white plates, softcover with flaps Kodoji Press, Baden 2020, ISBN 978-3-03747-102-9 Retail price CHF 30.00

The prolific talent behind Radiohead’s iconic artwork reveals the creative process that has driven a career spanning more than 20 years. Widely regarded as one of the most important graphic artists of his generation, Stanley Donwood is the man behind R …

The anatomy of our bodies requires sitting; but do we design seats in the same way? Has our meaning of sitting been colonised by Modern design? And how is the diverse, social-cultural act of sitting itself reflected in this functional commodity? In obs …

Texts by Marco Poloni and Nadia Veronese, English, 24 × 32 cm, 128 pages, 102 color and black & white plates, softcover with printed mylar jacket with flaps Kodoji Press, Baden 2021, ISBN 978-3-03747-098-5

some birds a bus a woman and spidernets places a crew. Steidl 2004. Englisch. 128 Seiten, 80 Abb. (davon 80 farbig). 21 x 26,8 cm.

Casco Issues is a magazine published by Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, which explores recurring issues that emerge from Casco’s program. The twelfth edition of Casco Issues, Generous Structures, is a playful enquiry into “playfulness” as a …

In 1991, the first issue of Dazed & Confused was released as a single A2 fold out newsprint by a then twenty-year-old Jefferson Hack and the photographer Rankin. Now, thirty years later, what began as a print magazine has gone on to provoke a chang …

What if humanity’s primary inven­tions were not the Hero’s spear but rather a basket of wild oats, a medicine bundle, a story. Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction presents a feminist story of technology that centres on the collective sustenance of life, and reimagines the carrier bag as a tool for telling strangely realistic fictions. New writings and images respond to Le Guin’s narrative practice of world­making through gathering and holding.

Bench Players is a series of failed, rejected, or unused animals from Rop van Mierlo’s archive; the reserve bench animals.
 Rop van Mierlo works with various mediums but starts his process mostly with drawings or paintings. Control – or the absence of …

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, bekannt als Le Corbusier (1887–1965), beeinflusste die Gestaltung, Funktion und Bauweise von Gebäuden und Wohnhäusern ebenso wie die Kunst und das Design des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eine ausführliche, präzise Betrachtung seiner Rol …

Five decades of iconic and incisive art from Barbara Kruger Since the mid-1970s, Barbara Kruger (born 1945) has been interrogating the hierarchies of power and control in works that often combine visual and written language. In her singular graphic sty …

Trotz Egoismus und Empathielosigkeit ist und bleibt der Mensch ein soziales Wesen. Vielleicht braucht es einfach neue Ideen für unser Miteinander. Die könnten ja in einem Umfeld entstehen, das im Englischen „solitude” genannt wird. Ein Zustand, der nic …

The publication ‘Buildings, Dingbats’ presents two series of ceramic works by the Berlin-based artist Sebastian Haslauer. Known for his paintings and collage work, the two-part publication for the first time showcases Haslauer’s unseen sculptural ceram …

Natural phenomenons are a well used tool to illustrate and explain financial circumstances. The economy could face tsunamis and earthquakes, it could end up in deep valleys and reach high peaks, and it could be standing in front of the fiscal cliff. The fiscal cliff illustrates an abrupt and uncontrolled economic collapse, and the imagery of state leaders falling down cliffs is one of satire drawings’ best known archetypes. The metaphor is strengthened by the cliff’s many cultural appearances, and it has become a cultural icon itself due to films as Thelma & Louise, Looney Tunes and the Youtube fossil Tha Cliff from 2006. In the publication Fiscal Cliff, the topographic metaphor is used as a starting point for a visual game with symbols and characters that somehow has to deal with the fiscal fall. There might be multiple reasons why the fiscal cliff occurs, but once it’s here it will affect us all. Erlend Peder Kvam (1994) is an artist and illustrator based in Oslo. As an illustrator he has been working with clients as Bloomberg Businessweek, Medium Editorial, BENEE and Pom Poko. He was formerly associated with the performative design collective Narves1biblioteket, and in 2020 he co-founded the zine label Foot Books.

Vehiculo. What was supposed to be a triptych on artistic views on mobility now gets a fourth chapter due to the overall positive responses we’ve received. This issue once again is filled with the output of forward-thinking individuals that much more pr …

Private Views: A High-Rise Panorama of Manhattan is a book by Andi Schmied, showcasing the views of twenty-five of Manhattan’s most luxurious private residential skyscrapers, which she documented while posing as an apartment-hunting Hungarian billionai …

Author Vítezslav Nezval (1900 – 1958) is considered one of the most important figures in the Czech avantgarde. Barbara Bausch and Eva Dymáková have now produced the first complete German version of Akrobat, the cycle of poems Nezval published in 1927. …

As a literary theorist, Sergei Tretyakov is one of the leading lights in the left-wing art avant-garde. Few people know that he was also one of the most active literary cartographers of the early Soviet Union and its Asian and European neighbours. On t …

Not only was Moisei Ginzburg (1892 – 1946) one of the most important architects of the Soviet avant-garde but his theoretical work was also the pioneering force in constructivism. Rhythm in Architecture (1923) provides an insight into Ginzburg’s early …